News & Notes Promotions Ruth Anita Bevan, Yeshiva University: associ- ate professor and Chairman. Sharon E. Doerner, University of Toledo: asso- ciate professor. Abel Jacob, York College, CUNY: associate professor. Manindra K. Mori apatra, Old Dominion Univer- sity: associate professor. David J. Olson, Indiana University: associate professor. Edward Rogowsky, York College, CUNY: assis- tant professor. Kim E. Shienbaum, York College, CUNY: assistant professor. John Sullivan, Indiana University: associate professor. Joseph S. Szyliowicz, University of Denver: professor. Ronald E. Weber, Indiana University: associate professor. Retirements Joseph Dunner, David Petegorsky Professor of Political Science, Yeshiva University, will retire in June 1974. John Brown Mason, professor emeritus, Califor- nia State University, Fullerton, as of July 1, 1974. In Memoriam Carlton Clymer Rodee Carlton Clymer Rodee, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Southern California, died in Pasadena on 27 September 1973. He was seventy-four years of age and had been a USC faculty member for thirty-five years prior to his retirement in 1967. Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Carl- ton did his baccalaureate and master's degree at Madison and took his Ph.D. at Yale, where he was a Cowles Fellow. Carlton Rodee's entire teaching career was at USC. After a short term in the School of Public Administration, he was promoted to an associ- ate professorship in political science and public administration, and in 1948, to a full professor- ship in political science. His leadership in the Department of Political Science was unmis- takable; in fact, he served as Chairman twice, 1937-1947 and 1954-1957. His faculty leadership at USC was evidenced in other ways as well. He was active in the American Association of University Professors and the so-called faculty uprising ("Revolt '46"). He was one of the founders of the Faculty Senate and elected Vice Chairman in 1956-1957. As a political scientist, he spanned all levels of professional organization: International Politi- cal Science Association; the California Ful- bright Commission from 1959-1966; the Ameri- can Political Science Association; the Western Association; the Board of Editors of the West- ern Political Quarterly for a number of years; and the Southern California Association, one of its founders and President, 1951-1953. In addi- tion, over the years, he served in a number of civic capacities, such as a member of the panel for the Western Region of the War Labor Board during World War II and as a member of the team which surveyed the University of Nevada in 1956. As a scholar, Dr. Rodee's major writings were closely related to his teaching. He was editor and co-author of Problems of Democratic Soci- ety, 1941, and Twentieth Century Political Thought, 1946. He was principal architect and co-author of Introduction to Political Science, 1957. He was a contributor to the Encyclo- pedia of the Social Sciences, Collier's Encyclo- pedia and to a number of academic journals. Professor Rodee's great strength was his teach- ing. He was unusually effective even with large undergraduate classes. Many years after these classes, his former students bring up his name as "my most memorable professor." The graduate students whose doctoral work Professor Rodee chaired, regard themselves as his personal pro- ducts. Each pridefully speaks of himself as a "Rodee man." They mention his idealism and his inspirational qualities; they even refer ap- provingly to his perfectionist traits. He came by his idealism ancestrally; his namesake was George Clymer, signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Carlton's colleagues in the Department and throughout the University of California held him in high regard and received continuing inspiration and guidance from him following his retirement. His family survives him: his widow, Frances Fritz, whom he married as an under- graduate, and their daughter, Georgia (Mrs. Gayle E. Post). Henry Reining, Jr. University of Southern California Wayne A. Wilcox Wayne A. Wilcox, together with his wife Ouida and children Kailan and Clark, was killed in the mid-air explosion of the Turkish airliner outside Paris on March 3, 1974. He was forty-one years old. Two other children, Shelley and Spencer, survive, as do Wayne Wilcox's mother and brother and Ouida Wilcox's mother. Wayne Wilcox became chairman of Columbia University's Department of Political Science in the autumn of 1968, at a most difficult and painful moment, when both the Department and the University at large were still deeply divided into angry camps in the aftermath of 212 PS Spring 1974 the previous spring's crisis, and when many students were pressing for sweeping curricular and structural changes. Positions were trumpet- ed as non-negotiable, tempers ran short, and moods were unforgiving. Combining, in equal measure, calm, cajolery, humor, guile, pru- dence, tolerance, and occasional pretenses to amnesia, Wayne Wilcox (an old navy hand) steered us through this minefield and on a course that brought us to major changes (hope- fully they are improvements) in the Depart- ment's doctoral program, to new (and certainly desirable) procedures for involving students in areas of departmental decision-making that had previously been the exclusive preserve of the faculty — such as admissions, personnel search- es, and curricular experimentation — and, most important, to a return of civility and goodwill within a departmental community many of whose members had been barely on speaking terms at the beginning of Wilcox's term-of- office. While engaged in this healing task, Wilcox also recruited to the Department, and made wel- come within it, a number of its finest current teachers and scholars. In addition, he was an active member of the University's Southern Asian Institute and helped found and guide the International Fellows Program. Despite these heavy administrative responsibilities, he en- joyed teaching and was good at it, and he also proudly and effectively pursued his scholarly work, usually during his summers at RAND on the West Coast. Indeed, this scholarly activity continued even into the recent years of his diplomatic assignment. One of his last articles, on current American policy toward India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, was sent us from London and is assigned in at least one of our courses. Wilcox's scholarly work combined an expertise in the politics of a geographic region, that is, the Indian subcontinent, with a subtle under- standing of the comparative problems of devel- opment, and with a semi-insider's knowledge of American policy toward such areas and prob- lems. His publications are the product of a skillful mixture of documentary analysis, field work, and intelligence. The author of three books and of many articles, he was also an ever-alert prober of methodological innovations in the discipline political science. He was the first, and for several years the only, member of this Department who knew what is a stochastic model and, in a tangential area, was the co-author of the all-too-true Issawi-Wilcox prin- ciple which stipulates that "Problems increase in geometric ratio, solutions in arithmetic ratio." It is unlikely that Wayne would have explicitly termed himself an intellectual, still less a member of the intelligentsia. His Hoosier home- spun horse-sense cut against such grandiloquen- ces. Still, he had a deep commitment to the application of academic and cultivated educa- tion to the world's problems. Congratulating one of his former students upon the latter's receipt of the doctorate, he wrote last year from London: " . . . it remains an act of faith on my part that bright people ought to cultivate their intellects and turned (sic) loose against society which is clearly inefficient, rigged, and disagreeable. I can't see how more educated people could harm it and it is just possible, Hobbes notwithstanding, that they might inch it a little closer to a humane civilization." Though the syntax of those lines is somewhat uncertain, their import is clearly benevolent and true. Joseph Rothschild Columbia University 2 1 3